.If you read this blogging site incredibly commonly, you understand that nearly whenever the wanderer stops for scientific research, MAHLI as well as APXS focus on exciting (and also easily accessible!) rocks as targets. The rover scientific research crew is actually, besides, built with a lot of rock hounds. But geography is certainly not all rocks, regularly-- sand is actually former stone that if laid to rest as well as constrained enough time will certainly become stone once more. Today was actually opportunity for sand to beam, as the work area was cut through troughs of sand of various colours as well as illuminations, as well as it had actually been actually almost 500 sols due to the fact that our experts obtained our last committed sand dimension with APXS as well as MAHLI. The "Pumice Apartment" aim at was among the more beautiful sand patches while "Kidney Pond" was just one of the darker sand patches. APXS uses a special placement mode over sand aim ats so the equipment receives close, yet not also close, to the loosened material which could foul up the musical instrument. Not-rock was additionally the purview of our environmental observations. Navcam is actually set up for image resolution looking for clouds as well as dust evil ones, and changes in the sand and dust atop the vagabond deck. Each Navcam and Mastcam will make opinions to measure the quantity of dirt in the environment. REMS will certainly keep track of our climate with regular dimensions, RAD will certainly observe our radiation environment, as well as DAN will check out rock for indications of water below our disk pathway.